Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 205
... walls of the ancient city , the acropolis at the top , antique fragments of old Praeneste built into walls and streets and gates , the vast ruin of the temple of Fortune that Sulla rebuilt , enclosing the medieval town , the Colonna ...
... walls of the ancient city , the acropolis at the top , antique fragments of old Praeneste built into walls and streets and gates , the vast ruin of the temple of Fortune that Sulla rebuilt , enclosing the medieval town , the Colonna ...
Pagina 229
... walls , counting the towers thereof , examined the site of the Ptolemy Palace , saw along the shore " great remains ... walls and later city were built out of the destruction of the ancient buildings . English Elizabethan voyagers ...
... walls , counting the towers thereof , examined the site of the Ptolemy Palace , saw along the shore " great remains ... walls and later city were built out of the destruction of the ancient buildings . English Elizabethan voyagers ...
Pagina 300
... walls , for the most part still upright beneath their ivy coats , with their moats of running water beside them . The main street ends in an open space that was once a market place , is now a meadow . In the walls are still some gates ...
... walls , for the most part still upright beneath their ivy coats , with their moats of running water beside them . The main street ends in an open space that was once a market place , is now a meadow . In the walls are still some gates ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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